Vandergrift Estate

Opinion by

Mk. Justice Benjamin R. Jones,

J. J. Vandergrift, a resident of Pittsburgh, died testate on December 26, 1899, survived by his second wife and five children.1

*19■■ Vándergrift’s will — obviously lawyer-drawn — provided, inter alia: (1) .the first seven articles dispose of •specific pieces of property and set forth the treatment of claims and advancements which involved the testa■tor’s relatives and friends; (2) the eighth article provided for legacies, including bequests, of $100,000 to each of testator’s five living children and a large, bequest to testator’s confidant, James I.…